Chapter 1225: Panicking
Many times, Eye Weilan couldn't understand the big boy in front of him who was several years younger than herself.
She can always see a lot of aura from Li Mu's body that is impossible for him at his age, just like when Li Mu stood on the stage just now and touched the background wall through the silk cloth, she really couldn't understand where he, a young man in his early twenties, came from such a strong sense of historical mission.
In the hearts of the older generation, the pathos for the national ordeal about the War of Resistance is naturally filled with blood and bone marrow, but for the young people of this era, they have no opportunity to get in touch with the deep feelings of the bone marrow, and most of their intuitive feelings about the War of Resistance are superficial, such as blaming and scolding the culprit Japan, applauding the atomic bomb dropped by the United States, and very few young people can be as sad as Li Mu for an unknown peasant woman and child in a photo decades ago.
Many things, it is easy to look at the big one, the smaller the look, the more difficult it is, just like many young people like to talk about the international situation, the world pattern, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the North Korean situation, the war in the Middle East and the war on terrorism, he can talk about any topic for an hour or two, but among such people, nine out of ten do not know how much rice is a pound and how much an egg is now.
In Wei Lan's eyes, it is too rare to see people who can stabilize their minds and look deeper, more detailed, and more underestimated, which is a skill that she herself longs for and can't learn after working hard for a long time.
It's like on a night when there are no clouds and mist, anyone who looks up at the vast Milky Way may span countless light years just by looking at it, but it is extremely difficult to see it in a slightly more concrete way.
Ordinary people can only see the outline of the lunar crater and the huge crater at most, and any other celestial details are invisible to the naked eye, and at this time, only with sufficient astronomical knowledge and professional equipment can they see the details of other celestial bodies.
For those who know nothing about astronomy, give him a good enough astronomical telescope, he may not be able to see the rings of Saturn in a year, and he may not be able to find Ganymede in ten years, but those who can endure loneliness and can receive the most subtle minds can discover one minute object after another in the vast starry sky and name it after themselves.
Before he knew Li Mu, Wei Lan felt that only with the continuous growth of people's age, the accumulation of knowledge, and the continuous improvement of experience, can they gradually narrow their scattered gaze more and more, and the reason why he can't look at the smallest like those who are extremely capable is because his heat is not enough, but Li Mu has subverted this perception that he has always had.
Some people take decades to ignite that fire, while others seem to be born with a fire.
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According to the staff, there were more than 800 media reporters present today, basically some well-known media from all over the world came, and the whole press conference was as lively as a vegetable market.
An hour before the press conference began, Li Mu met Chennault's daughter and two existing members of the American Flying Tigers in the lounge prepared by the hotel.
In the conversation with them, Li Mu heard an extremely shocking oral history, especially the two existing Flying Tigers, although they are both eighty or ninety years old, but they are in very good physical condition, and their thinking and expression skills are also very clear, they clearly remember many details of their time in the Flying Tigers, and remember the whole process of almost every take-off battle.
Everyone, including Li Mu, Spielberg and other creators, was shocked and moved by the oral history of these two veterans.
When the two talked about their greatest wish in this life, their answers were surprisingly unanimous: they both wanted to go back to China in their lifetime, to return to the place where they had fought, to see the people and things there, in their own words, the place they had defended desperately, and it was a great comfort for them to see that the people there were now living and working in peace and contentment.
Among them, an old Flying Tiger player named Paul Crawford said that when they were in China, they formed a deep comradeship with many Chinese Flying Tiger members, but after returning to the United States, many people gradually lost contact, and even many American Flying Tiger players gradually lost contact, so he also had a wish, hoping that Li Mu could help find more existing Flying Tiger members in China and the United States.
Li Mu instantly thought of the words "veterans do not die", this is a public welfare initiated by someone on the Internet in the previous life, intended to find those existing veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, and solve some life problems for them, Li Mu once paid great attention to this public welfare activity, when he found that many veterans are now eighty or ninety years old, and they do not even have a shelter from the wind and rain, when he found that those veterans who have fought for the country do not even have a few hundred yuan of subsistence allowance every month, When he heard that some veterans had been poor all their lives and had no money to see a doctor when they reached old age, he was an old man in his thirties who also burst into tears.
If it is a poor child or teenager, then give him food, clothing, and education, and he will have decades to change his fate;
If it is a poor youth, then give him a chance to work, and he will also have decades to struggle;
If it is a poor middle-aged and elderly person, give him a subsistence allowance, at least so that he can be guaranteed in his old age;
But if those veterans who died generously for this nation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but now they are devastated by reality, what should they be given to comfort their old and traumatized hearts and souls?
When the young people of this country are fanatical about all kinds of stars, does anyone bow for them in front of the veterans, even if it is a salute for them?
The year of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was 1945, 58 years have passed, and even those born in 1945 are now 58 years old, not to mention those who fought bravely for this nation from 1937 to 1945.
Even if you carry a gun to the battlefield at the age of eighteen, you are at least seventy or eighty years old by now......
Thinking of this, Li Mu's heart suddenly felt like a knife, I don't know how many veterans who participated in the Anti-Japanese War are still alive now, but it is certain that every day in the future, the veterans will only decrease, and there will be no increase.
One day, all the veterans who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will pass away, and at that time, no one will be able to tell others the history of those years, how they carried guns and rushed to the battlefield when they were teenagers, how they used their flesh and blood to resist the tanks and artillery of the invaders, and what kind of spirit of death did they use to shed their blood for this nation one after another......
Thinking of those who are the only ones who may be struggling in the shacks in the countryside at the moment, or they may be picking up bottles and cans abandoned by others next to the garbage heap in the city, Li Mu feels as if he is pressing a Mount Tai in his heart, and he can't breathe for a long time.
Li Mu temporarily said goodbye to the two veterans and Mr. Chennault's daughter, and went to the corner of the hotel's fire staircase alone and lit a cigarette.
At this moment, Li Mu felt that he really had to do something, making a movie just to justify their name and make their history public, but for those veterans who were suffering from life, such a movie would not be of any substantial help to them, and if they saw such a movie in the shack and beside the garbage heap, it must be a more painful thing for them.
So, Li Mu took out his mobile phone and wanted to make a call to China, and wanted to instruct a suitable person to help him travel all over the country, to count how many veterans of the Anti-Japanese War have survived to this day, to see how these veterans are doing now, how many people are struggling in suffering, and what kind of help they need.
But holding the mobile phone, it took a cigarette to work, and Li Mu didn't make the call.
It's too hard.
There are too few veterans, like black pearls scattered in the ocean, if you want to find them all, this workload is not something that can be completed by one person, you must build a complete system, and establish a hardware platform that can run this system perfectly.
In other words, this is a big project with both software and hardware, only the development of software, if the hardware platform can not be brought up, it is in vain, but if the hardware platform is fine, the software is not scientific and reasonable, then the efficiency of the whole system will become very low.
It is difficult to give such a thing to any one person, unless you take the lead, so in this case, there is naturally no need to make a phone call.
Li Mu sighed lightly, lit another cigarette with the cigarette butt, and then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and extinguished it with his toes, when a voice suddenly came from behind him: "What problem is the omnipotent Li Mu encountering?"
Li Mu subconsciously turned his head and saw Wei Lan standing behind him looking at him with a smile on his face, and said in surprise: "You don't have any sound when you walk?"
"You didn't hear me. The smile on Wei Lan's face looked like a bit of a sister's doting on her younger brother, but she was also a little distressed, she reached out and touched Li Mu's face, and said softly: "Did you feel a little out of breath after listening to the two old Flying Tiger team members talk about those histories?"
Li Mu nodded: "It's panicked." ”
Wei Lan was relieved: "Actually, you don't need to feel so heavy, you see that they have all lived so long and are living well now, this is a gratifying thing." ”
Li Mu sighed deeply and said: "You see that the two of them are doing well, and I feel very gratified, but I think of the veterans who exist in our country like them, I don't know how they are doing now, although most of them may be taken care of by the government, but the country is so big, there will definitely be some veterans who are missed, it is likely that an old man begging along the street in the city is a veteran who has carried a gun to the battlefield, thinking of them, I always feel that I should do something for them." ”
Wei Lan looked at Li Mu's solemn expression, couldn't help but stepped forward and gently hugged him, put his face on his shoulder, and said in his ear: "My dear, try not to think deeply about this kind of thing, it will be too heavy if you think deeply, I am afraid that you will add too much psychological burden because of these heavy histories......"
Li Mu said: "But in front of my eyes, there is always a group of lonely, helpless old people's faces flying and lingering, lingering......"